RE:Harvest Parade.

As many of you will know we have miles and miles of hedges to divide the fields her in UK and we spend many hours cutting them each year with tractor and hydraulic flail mowers, attached is a photo of one of two known horse drawn hedge cutters surviving in England and manufactured in the early 1900's. If the horse got frightened in any way that circular saw could be very dangerous.

RE:Harvest Parade.

Malcolm - Those are some neat field pictures, especially with the draft horses. But, I find it very rare that you actually were able to capture a Shire doing "work". I didn't know they knew how to find their way to the field because I thought they didn't think they liked to get their feathers dirty. :-)

RE:Harvest Parade.

Well it seems like Drew and Gary are enjoying the "horse power" photo's, so attached are a few more from the show. The great Shire's and a team of Belgian's imported from Canda in recent years, these were all pulling the brewery wagons or "dray's" as they are called here.

RE:Harvest Parade.

Well we had better get this thread back to Massey and Harvesting, so attached are some photographs taken of a very nice Massey Harris binder working at The Little Casterton working weekend in Lincolnshire, it is an early M-H binder like the one pictured at Newark Show above, both these binders have a wooden transport carriage with wheels to transport the binder from farm to field, before they started fitting the road wheels direct to the binder frame, it is being pulled by a well known Wallis 12-20 originally from Mount Vernon, Iowa and present at the National Massey Show in Waverly Nebraska before coming over to the UK and now well cared for by Jack Turner.

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Today's harvesting scene is my Massey-Harris 20-30 working with the Sunshine Stripper Header owned and restored by the UK combine expert Ron Knight at the Little Casterton working weekend a few years ago.